Yeah, like what General Motors did in Australia. "Yeah, we need all this funding and financial support to keep car manufacturing here for the next decade. Think of the jobs!" a year or two later "We're shutting down all manufacturing in Australia, no you can't have your money back"
Social media has been shown to make people with depression suffer more. All they see is a curated view of everyone they know having a great time. They look at their own life and see everything, not just the good stuff. The bad stuff overshadows the good. They get the impression than everyone else's life is amazing and theirs is all shit.
Then you've got the correlation between an increasing trend in youth suicide rates and an increase in social media use.
The other providers don't offer it. It's a differentiator for them. The prices across all providers are similar. There are literally dozens of providers. They all try to offer something different to compete.
The one I chose is run by my ISP, they offer slightly cheaper monthly rates.
USA should put on their big boy undies and split up the monopolistic telcos. Forcing competitively priced wholesale access is not a bad thing.
You've got massive areas of your country where there is a single company that owns the infrastructure and provides all the services. Don't like the service? Too bad. Costs too much? Sorry. Want service X without paying for service Y too? Fuck you.
"rollover data" is common in NZ, and lasts for 12 months. I have 8GB stacked up right now. My phone is on wifi at home and work. zero-rated data is relatively new and data prices are substantially cheaper than they used to be. zero-rated data is also only offered by a few providers. Most don't. Mine doesn't.
My 300 minutes are outbound only, I have unlimited inbound minutes and unlimited outbound minutes to toll-free numbers.
We have a healthier competition here, where wholesale access to communications networks is the norm. There may only be 3 physical networks, but there are literally dozens of service providers. The Spark and Vodafone networks are used by many providers. The 2degrees network I believe is much smaller and they wholesale Vodafone's network to fill in their coverage.
Unlimited data and call plans start from $80NZ including all taxes, which is a little over $50US. Seems reasonably competitive with USA prices that are $40US + taxes. It's a cross between the $40 and $50 plans from Verizon - you get the 22GB "premium LTE" but you don't get high-def video. You don't get Apple Music but you get Spotify.
These are all month-by-month plans too, we don't really do 12/24 month contracts anymore.
If you're a Spark customer, you get zero rated Facebook access. Some other social media platforms too, I think. With less than 5 million people and over 5000 cell towers though, considering the infrastructure per capita, I think we pay reasonable mobile data rates. I pay $20 a month for 2.5GB of "rollover" data, unlimited txt messages and 300 minutes outbound calling (inbound is always free for everyone on every carrier. We live in a caller-pays country, which has made spam calls to cellphones almost non-existent.)
* That's $20NZ, which is like $13US * There's 5133 towers listed on https://gis.geek.nz/celltowers , there may be more. They say 5,582 LTE licenses. Our population is a little under 4.8 million. * Apparently the average tower cost is $200k, so about $1B infrastructure spread across a total of 4.8M people
It's offer people $1/hr to click some things on their computer, at whatever time they feel like, anywhere in the world, with no strings attached. No one is making anyone do this. It's not employment.
There is a level of trust, where both parties trust the centralised system. With a decentralised system, you have to trust the system. which only gives you and answer in bitcoin when the block becomes part of the chain. Which only happens every ~10 minutes. Which means a wait time between 10 and 20 minutes.
It's pointless for them to steal a significant amount. You can't sell it quick enough to before trust is lost and no one wants to buy it. Who's going to want to buy a billion dollars of BTC?
They make billions every year selling mining hardware instead.
which automatically adjusts itself to maintain the long term mining rate at one block per 10 minutes.
Which is just one reason why btc will never replace traditional payment networks. No one is going to wait 10 to 20 minutes for a transaction to be verified when they're at a checkout. Nor are they going to effectively bid to have their transactions accepted by miners in what is a global limitation of less than 10 transactions per second.
Visa can process a peak or 56,000 transactions per second and regularly does 4,000 per second. Apparently Mastercard does even more than that. There's AMEX too, and many others. All of which operate simultaneously, as they're all methods of transferring fiat currency, not specific Visa Dollars or Mastercard Money. The customer's bank also deals with currency conversion automatically. I don't care that the thing I'm selling to a guy in Japan is paid for in Yen, I get my dollars in exchange, in less than a second. At most it costs me 2.5% in fees. Usually less.
BTC fees can be upwards of $40.
As a consumer, if someone steals my credit card number, there's a limit to how much can be taken, and most likely I'll get the fraudulent transactions reversed. Nothing lost. If someone steals my BTC wallet, I'm fucked. Every coin in that wallet is gone forever. If I lost it, I'm fucked, every coin in that wallet is lost from the network forever. In a network of finite coins. There are 5 wallets with more than 100,000 BTC in them. I'm will to bet someone just lost their private keys This guy: 1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF put 80 BTC in there back in 2011, and some minor deposits have trickled in over the years, but never a single withdrawal. Maybe it's a "please donate" address on some website somewhere and the owner has since died.
So far ~10% of the total supply has been lost forever. An estimated 2 million btc are gone, mostly from the first few years.
The thousands upon thousands of different devices claiming to belong to Google and Facebook employees?
Google has been running their Screenwide programme for at least 5 years now. Apple apparently didn't click that an app called Screenwise Meter was using Google's enterprise certificate. Took the media less than a day to figure it out one the Facebook news came out.
It's not the melting plastic tank, it's the well known fact that propylene glycol breaks down in to formaldehyde when heated. Not just formaldehyde, but a whole bunch of different carbonyls. Not as much as burning tobacco, but not insignificant either.
e-cigarettes are not as bad as real cigarettes, but they're still not good for you.
Later this year a lot of countries are planning on regulating vaping in a similar manor as tobacco. New Zealand is banning their use inside public places (bars, restaurants, etc) like we did with smoking years ago. They're also restricting advertising and sale to minors too.
The FDA applies a lot of the same rules to ecigs as they do it regular cigrettes.
Exercise works too. I wasn't even trying to quit, but the association between smoking before or after an hour on a treadmill and it making me feel like shit broke the addiction.
Didn't happen with DMCA take down notices. How many people or companies have been prosecuted for perjury for filing a claim against something they don't own?
The video portal is built for it. Advertising and ad revenue sharing is it's core function. The problem is the concessions the copyright lobby have forced upon them - they made them implement automated systems for copyright infringement strikes with no oversight and no repercussions for false claims.
Office 365 stopped working so I couldn't use my work email. Anything that used "login.microsoftonline.com" as an authentication provider stopped working. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the XBox issue too.
UTF-8 is unicode. It's one method of encoding unicode characters as multi-byte sequences.
The problem is going to be either: Apple doesn't correctly set the Content-Encoding header when it makes HTTP requests or Slashdot doesn't correctly support the content encoding being set.
Ran the audit against this page 5 vulnerabilities found in the Javascript libraries. 1 medium in jQuery 1.3.2, 3 high's in jQueryUI 1.7.2 and a medium in Handlebars 3.0.0
Overall audit scores high and low: SEO: 91% Performance 21%
I see where the priority lies. That's with ad-blocking turned on too, I'd hate to see how bad it is without Adblock Plus and uBlock Origin
Slashdot Mirror
Amazon doesn't want to give anyone 3 billion.
They want New York City to give them 3 billion, for the privilege of letting them move in.
Yeah, like what General Motors did in Australia.
"Yeah, we need all this funding and financial support to keep car manufacturing here for the next decade. Think of the jobs!"
a year or two later
"We're shutting down all manufacturing in Australia, no you can't have your money back"
Add to it all the antidepressants that have been shown to increase suicidal thoughts.
Social media has been shown to make people with depression suffer more.
All they see is a curated view of everyone they know having a great time. They look at their own life and see everything, not just the good stuff. The bad stuff overshadows the good. They get the impression than everyone else's life is amazing and theirs is all shit.
Then you've got the correlation between an increasing trend in youth suicide rates and an increase in social media use.
The other providers don't offer it. It's a differentiator for them.
The prices across all providers are similar. There are literally dozens of providers. They all try to offer something different to compete.
The one I chose is run by my ISP, they offer slightly cheaper monthly rates.
USA should put on their big boy undies and split up the monopolistic telcos. Forcing competitively priced wholesale access is not a bad thing.
You've got massive areas of your country where there is a single company that owns the infrastructure and provides all the services. Don't like the service? Too bad. Costs too much? Sorry. Want service X without paying for service Y too? Fuck you.
"rollover data" is common in NZ, and lasts for 12 months. I have 8GB stacked up right now. My phone is on wifi at home and work.
zero-rated data is relatively new and data prices are substantially cheaper than they used to be.
zero-rated data is also only offered by a few providers. Most don't. Mine doesn't.
My 300 minutes are outbound only, I have unlimited inbound minutes and unlimited outbound minutes to toll-free numbers.
We have a healthier competition here, where wholesale access to communications networks is the norm.
There may only be 3 physical networks, but there are literally dozens of service providers.
The Spark and Vodafone networks are used by many providers. The 2degrees network I believe is much smaller and they wholesale Vodafone's network to fill in their coverage.
Unlimited data and call plans start from $80NZ including all taxes, which is a little over $50US. Seems reasonably competitive with USA prices that are $40US + taxes. It's a cross between the $40 and $50 plans from Verizon - you get the 22GB "premium LTE" but you don't get high-def video. You don't get Apple Music but you get Spotify.
These are all month-by-month plans too, we don't really do 12/24 month contracts anymore.
It means not charging customers for data to specific websites.
If you're a Spark customer, you get zero rated Facebook access. Some other social media platforms too, I think.
With less than 5 million people and over 5000 cell towers though, considering the infrastructure per capita, I think we pay reasonable mobile data rates.
I pay $20 a month for 2.5GB of "rollover" data, unlimited txt messages and 300 minutes outbound calling (inbound is always free for everyone on every carrier. We live in a caller-pays country, which has made spam calls to cellphones almost non-existent.)
* That's $20NZ, which is like $13US
* There's 5133 towers listed on https://gis.geek.nz/celltowers , there may be more. They say 5,582 LTE licenses. Our population is a little under 4.8 million.
* Apparently the average tower cost is $200k, so about $1B infrastructure spread across a total of 4.8M people
It's offer people $1/hr to click some things on their computer, at whatever time they feel like, anywhere in the world, with no strings attached.
No one is making anyone do this.
It's not employment.
Most of them probably aren't even Americans.
There is a level of trust, where both parties trust the centralised system.
With a decentralised system, you have to trust the system. which only gives you and answer in bitcoin when the block becomes part of the chain. Which only happens every ~10 minutes. Which means a wait time between 10 and 20 minutes.
It's pointless for them to steal a significant amount.
You can't sell it quick enough to before trust is lost and no one wants to buy it.
Who's going to want to buy a billion dollars of BTC?
They make billions every year selling mining hardware instead.
which automatically adjusts itself to maintain the long term mining rate at one block per 10 minutes.
Which is just one reason why btc will never replace traditional payment networks.
No one is going to wait 10 to 20 minutes for a transaction to be verified when they're at a checkout.
Nor are they going to effectively bid to have their transactions accepted by miners in what is a global limitation of less than 10 transactions per second.
Visa can process a peak or 56,000 transactions per second and regularly does 4,000 per second.
Apparently Mastercard does even more than that.
There's AMEX too, and many others. All of which operate simultaneously, as they're all methods of transferring fiat currency, not specific Visa Dollars or Mastercard Money. The customer's bank also deals with currency conversion automatically. I don't care that the thing I'm selling to a guy in Japan is paid for in Yen, I get my dollars in exchange, in less than a second. At most it costs me 2.5% in fees. Usually less.
BTC fees can be upwards of $40.
As a consumer, if someone steals my credit card number, there's a limit to how much can be taken, and most likely I'll get the fraudulent transactions reversed. Nothing lost.
If someone steals my BTC wallet, I'm fucked. Every coin in that wallet is gone forever.
If I lost it, I'm fucked, every coin in that wallet is lost from the network forever. In a network of finite coins. There are 5 wallets with more than 100,000 BTC in them. I'm will to bet someone just lost their private keys
This guy: 1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF put 80 BTC in there back in 2011, and some minor deposits have trickled in over the years, but never a single withdrawal. Maybe it's a "please donate" address on some website somewhere and the owner has since died.
So far ~10% of the total supply has been lost forever. An estimated 2 million btc are gone, mostly from the first few years.
I certainly don't see how anyone can cheat other than be obtaining (by brute force) majority control of the mining operations.
You mean how Bitmain, the owner of btc.com and antpool, had at one point 60%?
The thousands upon thousands of different devices claiming to belong to Google and Facebook employees?
Google has been running their Screenwide programme for at least 5 years now. Apple apparently didn't click that an app called Screenwise Meter was using Google's enterprise certificate.
Took the media less than a day to figure it out one the Facebook news came out.
Yeah, they act as soon as bad press makes headlines.
They did nothing about it for the years this has been going on for.
Apple are protecting their image, nothing more.
Apple are waiting on 5G because they've burnt their bridges with the biggest 5G modem supplier.
They need to wait for Intel to catch up.
It's not the melting plastic tank, it's the well known fact that propylene glycol breaks down in to formaldehyde when heated.
Not just formaldehyde, but a whole bunch of different carbonyls.
Not as much as burning tobacco, but not insignificant either.
e-cigarettes are not as bad as real cigarettes, but they're still not good for you.
Later this year a lot of countries are planning on regulating vaping in a similar manor as tobacco.
New Zealand is banning their use inside public places (bars, restaurants, etc) like we did with smoking years ago. They're also restricting advertising and sale to minors too.
The FDA applies a lot of the same rules to ecigs as they do it regular cigrettes.
Exercise works too.
I wasn't even trying to quit, but the association between smoking before or after an hour on a treadmill and it making me feel like shit broke the addiction.
The ones who were giving up on their own?
What about the control group, how many of the regular smokers who were not told to give up actually gave up?
It's just water brah
and glycols which turn to formaldehyde when heated...
Didn't happen with DMCA take down notices. How many people or companies have been prosecuted for perjury for filing a claim against something they don't own?
The video portal is built for it.
Advertising and ad revenue sharing is it's core function.
The problem is the concessions the copyright lobby have forced upon them - they made them implement automated systems for copyright infringement strikes with no oversight and no repercussions for false claims.
Office 365 stopped working so I couldn't use my work email.
Anything that used "login.microsoftonline.com" as an authentication provider stopped working.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was the XBox issue too.
UTF-8 is unicode. It's one method of encoding unicode characters as multi-byte sequences.
The problem is going to be either:
Apple doesn't correctly set the Content-Encoding header when it makes HTTP requests
or
Slashdot doesn't correctly support the content encoding being set.
Ran the audit against this page
5 vulnerabilities found in the Javascript libraries. 1 medium in jQuery 1.3.2, 3 high's in jQueryUI 1.7.2 and a medium in Handlebars 3.0.0
Overall audit scores high and low:
SEO: 91%
Performance 21%
I see where the priority lies.
That's with ad-blocking turned on too, I'd hate to see how bad it is without Adblock Plus and uBlock Origin
Good on ya /., you suck.